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Week 6

A project log for Microplate Reader

A High School project

liugodricliugodric 12/12/2020 at 05:570 Comments

We were not able to upload and report our progress last week, therefore, we are publishing week 5's log this week. Last week, after we successfully connected the belt, which allows the motor to control the plate holder to move along the X-axis, with the plate holder, we started to devise ways to enable the plate holder to move along the Y-axis. Since we cannot do the same thing with the Y-axis to make the plate holder move sideways because the beams have fixed positions and the only way to make the plate holder move along the Y-axis is to make the whole setup move altogether. Therefore, we begin to plan how are we going to drill the holes on the aluminum beams. We first created a 3D image of the beam via Fusion 360 and then utilized the manufacturing features of it and came up with the pathway of how the holes of the beams shall be drilled by CNC. Unfortunately, the builder we were working in had an interrupted electricity supply and we were not able to use anything, including machines, the wifi, and the plugs, that used electricity, so we went home early:)

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